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	Vestments Glossary
		Vestments have their origin in the ordinary street clothes of the first century, but have more or less remained the same as clothing fashions have changed.
		Today, vestments are designed to be worn over street clothes and serve a number of practical purposes: they conceal the distractions of fashionable street clothing, they remove any consideration of what constitutes appropriate attire, and they remind the congregation that the ministers are not acting on their own, but performing in their official capacities.
		The cassock is a clerical, not a vestment.
	www.kencollins.com /glossary/vestments.htm (4011 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dalmatic
		vestment consists of two vertical stripes running from the shoulder to the hem; according to Roman usage these stripes are narrow and united at the bottom by two narrow cross-stripes.
		vestment in the pre-Carolingian era, and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries regularly shaped openings were often substituted for the slits.
		vestment with broad and elegantly embroidered bands which were united on the breast and back by cross-bands.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04608a.htm (2059 words)

	Cope - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The vestment is secured in front by a broad tab sewn on to one side and fastening to the other with hooks, sometimes also by a brooch (called the morse, Lat.
		For this reason it was not rejected with the "Mass vestments" by the English Church at the Reformation, in spite of the fact that it was in no ecclesiastical sense "primitive." By the First Prayer-book of Edward VI., which represented a compromise, it was directed to be worn as an alternative to the "vestment" (i.e.
		This vestment is a loose robe, with a large hood (lined with fur in winter and red silk in summer) and a long train, which is carried by a cleric called the caudatarius.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /cope (1345 words)

	Maniple (vestment) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cope A vestment which may most conveniently be described as a long liturgical mantle, open in front and fastened at the breast with a band or clasp.
		Maniple An ornamental vestment in the form of a band, a little over a yard long and from somewhat over two to almost four inches wide, which is placed on the left arm in such manner that it falls in equal length on both sides of the arm.
		Tunic A vestment shaped like a sack, which has in the closed upper part only a slit for putting the garment over the head, and, on the sides, either sleeves or slits through which the arms can be passed.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Maniple_(vestment).html (450 words)

	Vestment - Information from Reference.com
		Vestments are liturgical garments and articles associated primarily with the Christian religions, especially the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Methodists, Lutheran and Anglican Churches.
		The rubrics (regulations) for the type of vestments to be worn vary between the various communions and denominations.
		Non-Eucharistic vestments are typically referred to as "choir dress" or "choir habit," in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican churches.
	www.reference.com /search?q=Vestment (1985 words)

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